Cusco / Machupicchu
Cusco

The magnificent city we see today is the result of the superimposition of one culture upon another. Nestled in the heart of the Andes, Cusco was the political and religious capital of the Incas, the hub of the greatest empire ever seen in the Americas and a place of pilgrimage for all those who worshipped the sun god, Inti.

Machupicchu

With the arrival of the Spanish in 1532, Cusco?s temples and palaces became the foundations for magnificent neo-Baroque churches such as Santo Domingo and the Cathedral, and above its narrow streets rose the wooden balconies of red-roofed, whitewashed colonial houses.